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July 2009
An Oklahoma Chartered Corporation Affiliated with United States Sailing & Central States Sailing Association
P.O. Box 1652 Norman, Oklahoma 73070
Note: The TSC and BoatHouse share this PO Box.
Thunderbird Sailing Club
Mainsheet www.thunderbirdsailingclub.org
Commodore’s Message: Ted Streuli
It was nice to hear from Incipient Skipper Dave Craigie over the Independence Day holiday. Ha ad first mate, Joyce, were reporting in from Michigan where they were waiting out some high winds before proceeding to the North Channel in Canada for the remainder of their cruising vacation. Dave reported that they’ve been having a terrific time with fine weather and good friends on the Great Lakes.
We are short on volunteers for the CSSA Junior Regatta July 25. It takes 12-18 people to run the event, which last from 8 a.m. until approximately 4 p.m. As of this writing there are only eight people who have said they’ll be on hand, but in a leap of faith, Paul Reynolds said he’s going forward with the event. Contact Paul at [email protected] or me if you can make it out to lend a hand on the 25th.
We were pleased to welcome new members Jerry and Margie Campbell at the June meeting. The Campbell’s have a 30-foot Seidelman they moved into Calypso Cove last month. Pictures of that adventure are posted in the Web site’s photo gallery.
Also new to the club is Mike Devenitch, who has been out shopping for a sailboat. He had a student enrolled in our July youth camp as well.
There are two more chances for your friends to learn to sail this year. Mike Klatt will be teaching the adult small boat class at the end of July and Rick Shaw will be teach the year’s final basic keel boat class in September. Check the Web site for details.
There has been some casual discussion of having the Au-gust meeting on one of the Oklahoma River Cruise boats. That would make for a fun, social evening – with air condi-tioning! Please let Vice Commodore Sam Tiffany know if you’re in terested in par t ic ipating at s t i f [email protected].
We decided against Pirate Day this year, and instead will be having an island-theme party at the BoatHouse September 19. Watch for all the details, but start thinking about your favorite island garb, food and drink. St. Croix? BVIs? Ha-waii? Australia? Vancouver? Anything goes, from aloha shirts and grass skirts to Jamaican rum and shrimp on the barbie. The universally islandesque Jimmy Buffet will appear by stereo, of course. It will be a terrific chance to bring a guest and introduce them to our club and to sailing – we’ll be sure to have sailboat rides leaving from the dock regularly, wind permitting. Fair winds, fellow Thundersailors – I’ll see you on the water!
There are two upcoming dinghy classes, and volun-teers are needed. The next Small Boat Sailing class for adults has been rescheduled for the week of July 27 (Monday - Sun-day). The class meets weekday evenings, and then dur-ing the day on Saturday and Sunday. Monday and Tuesday are the busiest days because the students are sailing with volunteers instructors before getting turned loose on Wednesday. The NROTC class will be the week of August 17. This is the biggest class of the year, and is a main source of income for the BoatHouse. It's also a very rewarding experience for both instructors and students. The midshipmen usually rate learning to sail as their second favorite experience during Fleet Orientation Week (we lose out to the shooting range). As an added incentive to volunteer, you may get a chance to sample an authentic MRE during the dinner break. Tasty. The schedule for this class varies, but typically the class-room sesssions are on Monday and Tuesday on campus, then the students are split into two groups of 15-16 for their on-the-water training on Wednesday-Saturday at the BoatHouse. A lot of volunteers are needed for the on-the-water sessions. Remember, you do not need to be a certified instructor to help with classes. You do not even need to be a highly experienced sailor. You'll probably learn some-thing new about sailing, and you'll definitely have a lot of fun. Class tuition keeps the BoatHouse going, and new sailors keep TSC and the other BoatHouse organi-zations going. If you'd like to help, please contact Mike Klatt at <[email protected]>.
UPCOMING SAILING CLASSES SMALL BOAT AND NROTC!
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July Aug Doris Shoemaker 07/03 Les Anderson 08/04 Steve Bradford 07/05 Betsey Streuli 08/05 Mike Galoob 07/07 Sam Tiffany 08/11 Jim Waller 07/11 Barbara Boren 08/15 Les Cummings 07/17 Andy Rieger 08/19 Pam Roach 07/19 Cheryl Brackett 08/21 Chad Cox 07/20 Rick Eager 08/28 Ed Shoemaker 07/20 Butch Enterline 08/29 Carol Souders 07/24 Phil Dame 07/24 Glede Holman 07/27 Teresa Holman 07/27 Richard Beevers 07/31 If corrections/additions, please contact Les Cum-mings at [email protected]. We notice that we are missing a large number of birthdays, see more on this page, if you’d like your b’day to be rec-ognized, please send Les the information. And NO, we do not need the year!
Acting Treasurer: Doris Shoemaker
Happy Birthdays for July/Aug
TSC Members We need birthdays for the following:
I am attempting to obtain the birthdays for the members listed above.
Please send the birthday MO/DAY to:
Very little activity, bank balance is $5,606.00. Memberships are still available! Felix Aquino
Jesse Baggett Jim Baum Simon Boyd Beth Brown Corbett Brown Bill Burrows Mary Burrows James Casey Tim Chorley Horton Deakins Bill Etchieson Robert Frantz Rob Garibay Cheryl Garibay
Hank Grant Sonja Grant Vernon Green
Jon Haynes Julie Haynes Dave Jewett George LeVan Jill LeVan Rick Mallinson Tim Mather Kevin Ozmun Liane Ozmun Heidi Vint Brenda Shinn John Souders Dennis Stone Sheryl Tiffany Daniel Walker
Remembering the flood of July 2007 The lake went from 9’ down to 9’ up in about a month.
<--On left note the water is nearly up to the deck. David Craigie actually tied his boat off that Cypress tree in front of the deck at one time. We could use some of that water now!
On the right, Jerry Lojka does some kind of stretching exercise :+) I refuse to publish the next photo in the series. It was-n’t a pretty sight. Note the handi-capped parking sign behind him.
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Vice Commodore: Sam Tiffany
SEPTEMBER 26, 2009 THUNDERBIRD BOATHOUSE HOSTS 7TH ANNUAL
CAST FOR KIDS FISHING DERBY
Fleet Captain: Karen Thurston
We are having a fun racing series for the Commodore’s Cup this year. The turnout has been good, even when we have gales or very little wind. Now that July is here (wow, where is the summer going?!), the winds typically are not as strong. This just makes it fun to see our TSC racers tweak their boats to get the most out of them. It is just as exciting to cross the finish line having beaten the boat next to you at a crawl as it is to go blazing through at 10 knots on other nights. If you are at all interested in racing, give me a call. We can get you on a boat. Or, bring your own boat out and increase the competition! It is nice to see the power boaters look at all the sails on the water. I just know they are envious (or maybe the blank stare stems from the thought that “why would anyone want to work that hard on a boat?”). I want to thank all the racers that are participating this season for the great turnout, the great attitudes, and the great compe-tition. It has been really nice seeing that many sails on the water at once. Sail Fast, Note: See below for an interesting way to retrieve a halyard
The program at this month’s meeting promises to be very interesting - our own Mike Klatt and Britton Rife from the Oklahoma Wind Power Initiative will be mak-ing a presentation based on their research project on wind energy here in Oklahoma - energy efficiency, in-stalling your own wind and solar systems at home (or possibly on a boat?), wind farm development in Okla-homa, etc. A cruise may be on the agenda for our August club meeting! If there’s enough interest from the club, we’ll be chartering a boat for an Oklahoma River Cruise. We need 35 people to commit and the cost will be $12 per person. We would leave Regatta Park at 5:30pm sharp (you should be there by 5:15) and return at 7:45pm. Refreshments sold on board. SEE MORE INFORMATION ON PAGE 9………….
It’s not too early to start thinking about Island Day. We’ll mark the passing of summer at our September meeting with an island bash. Island garb, island food, island music, …. If you have any good ideas for Island Day, please let me know!
Page 4 2009 JUNE KIDS SAILING CAMP
What a terrific June Kids’ Sailing Camp! Along with near perfect weather, we had 15 terrific students along with a great cadre of volunteers. The students were: Jake Boulter Tommy Lindley Eva Sparks Varun Ennamuri Al Miller Jeremiah Johnson Cordell Glover Aaron Agrawal Ellie Thurston Brock Trotter Megan Portwood Justin Burk Kylie Beasley Cody Hale Kayla Portwood Volunteers were: Karen Thurston Delanie Beevers Ed Hale Roger Elliott Rod Horton Raymond Glover Will Beasley Danny Proctor, Lake Patrol Marilyn Friend Jocelyn Peterson Vernon Green Rick Eager Don Davis Gehrig Thurston Te Woei Poon Richard Beevers We also thank Phil Moershel for delivering the donated canoe which was terrific and a special thank you to Justin Tuck for helping to get the safety boats ready for the year and along with Orville Fisher for washing all 12 of the prams prior to the camp. I thank all the volunteers for their great work. Each day went like clockwork, thanks to the camp’s daily schedule developed several years ago by our good friend Howard Haines. This class also had more perfect exam scores than any class I have been associated with over the past seven years. And what great sailors! With 15 newbie sailors on the water we weren’t quite sure what to expect, but having several students from previous years was very helpful as they formed an experienced core of sailors that were most helpful with such a large class. We used 11 or 12 of the prams each day along with several Sunfish, the Minifish, and the Dolphin. On Monday and Tuesday we had strong winds from the south but as usual the cove was protected well and it caused no problems for the swimming, capsize drills, and the rowing, paddling, canoeing, and towing of the boats behind the safety boats. On Wednesday, the first day we actually sailed, the winds were just perfect to do the ‘destination’ sail and we were able to sail across the lake and back twice on their first day of sailing, another first for our sailing camp. Thursday and Friday were light air days and provided lots of practice time on the water to prepare the kids for their tacks and gybes on Saturday to show their parents, siblings, and friends their sailing skills. Thanks again to all the volunteers and students who made this 2009 June camp such a success! Les, Principal Instructor See next two pages for photos from the camp
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NOTICE OF RACE
THUNDERBIRD ROUND UP---CSSA JR. REGATTA #2 Thunderbird Sailing Club, Lake Thunderbird BoatHouse, Norman, OK
July 25th, 2009
RULES. The regatta shall be governed by the ISAF Racing Rules of Sailing for 2009-2011 (RRS), the prescriptions of the United States Sailing Association, the rules of each class concerned (except as altered by the Sailing Instructions), the Notice of Race and the Sailing Instructions. The rules for all classes are altered so that membership in a class organization is not required. CLASSES. Optimist, Sunfish, Laser (Full and Radial), Club 420 and Others. All classes are “bring your own boat.” A mini-mum of three boats is required to form a class. ELIGIBILITY. Open to all persons who do not turn 19 years of age during calendar year 2009. Optimists are sailed in two fleets: Green Fleet: Open to all novice sailors; and Red Fleet: Optimist. Maximum Skipper age in Optimist fleets is 15. Mem-bership in CSSA is required. Go to www.cssasailimg.org to join REGISTRATION. Pre-Registration is encouraged and may be done by sending the attached registration form found at http://www.cssasailing.org/ to Paul Reynolds, 332 Emelyn St., Norman, OK, 73071, or email address: [email protected].
Registration at the regatta will be conducted on Saturday, July 25th between 8:30am and 10:00 am. Execution of a Li-ability Release Agreement as set forth in the Registration Form shall be required. Parents are urged to provide a signed Medical Consent Form to enable other adults to obtain emergency medical services. SAILING INSTRUCTIONS will be provided at the registration and at the Skipper’s Meeting. If published in time, they may also be posted on the CSSA website. ENTRY FEE. Pre-registration Fee is $15 if received by July 22. After this date, the fee is $25.
Fees include continental breakfast, lunch on the water and snacks afterwards. SKIPPER’S MEETING. The Skippers’ meeting will be held at 10:30 am on Saturday July, 25th at the Lake Thunderbird Boat-House. RACES. Subject to the decisions of the Race Committee, 5 or more races may be scheduled. If 5 races are complete, there will be a throw out race for scoring purposes . No race will be started after 1700, Saturday July 25th. LIFE JACKETS/PFD’S. All competitors shall be required to wear PFD’s at all times while on the water. PFD’s shall be worn outside all clothing. SCHEDULE Saturday, July 25th 0830-1000 Registration at the Club 1030 Skipper’s Meeting 1125 Warning Signal for the first race, other races to follow Between Races Lunch will be served on the water or at RC discretion No warning signal for a race will be given after 1700. Approximatily 1 hour after last race Awards Scoring: Appendix A will be used. The CSSA Arbitration will be used for all protests. Protests: Filing time is 30 minutes after the RC docks at the end of racing for the day. The RC will make a sound signal and record the time. The forms will be provided. TROPHY PRESENTATION. All entrants will get participation awards. The Optimist Green Class receives no trophies. Each Class will be awarded trophies on the following basis: 3 boats 1; 7 boats 2; 11 boats 3; 15 boats 4. Trophy presentations will be held on Saturday approximately one hour after the last race or protest hearing is completed. DIRECTIONS TO THE BOATHOUSE on Boathouse Rd: http://thunderbirdsailingclub.org/index.htm FURTHER INFORMATION. Contact Paul Reynolds at 405-292-5364, [email protected]
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Hi Les and all TSC members, Just a few words to let you know how things are going this summer. Perhaps you will find a few paragraphs to put in the next mainsheet. If you want to go boating early in the season, if you want easily navigable waters with abundant anchorages that are super easy to find and have great holding, if you like the "frahnk, frahnk" sound of Great Blue Herons, the bellow of frogs and the chirping of crickets, if you like free ramps and free parking and available marinas for whatever you might need. Then you should consider a cruise on Kentucky Lake where all this and more is available. What makes it all the better is the time of year that we are here; Late May through mid June. The temperatures are cool, the water is warm and the crowds have yet to show up. Other then on weekends in some of the bigger bays, you can find all the solitude that you could ever possible want in the Land Between the Lakes side of Kentucky Lake. Most of our time here has been in the company of other Trailer/Sailors. We have sailed with members from Mis-souri, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Nebraska. Some were old friends from up north, some were new, but in the end we are now old sailing friends and it is likely that we will see each other on the water again some time. There are many highlights to this trip, but perhaps the most memorable is the ease of getting around on the water here. Big and small anchorages are everywhere, so close in fact that you have to do a little daysailing in between so that you feel like you have gone somewhere that day. While we have been on the water for three weeks, I have yet to stay a night in a marina. And while this appeals to me personally, I understand that some boaters desire an occa-sional night at a dock to take care of necessities. So it works for everyone here; stay on the hook or stay at one of the many available marinas, eat on your boat or go to one of the many low key to fancy resort restaurants that are avail-able. Whatever works is available here. Contrary to many that I have spoken to who have boated on Kentucky Lake, the temperatures and the winds have been delightful and we have had many days of pleasant sailing. Later in the summer though, it is reported that the temperature soars, much like Oklahoma, and the winds fail to blow. So we have probably picked the three primo weeks to be here. On Saturday, June 13th we will be heading for higher latitudes; Traverse City MI. I will have more on that at a later date and how our sail north to Canada went. Ed. Note: I talked with David on Sunday, June 21 and they were in MI. We miss everyone and hope that the club has an active summer and new friendships are made all around. Enjoy the pictures. Fair Winds, David & Joyce Photos below, ‘transportation’, Hiwy 68 bridge, Dave/Joyce on sandbar between lakes, and Incipient ‘starboard tack.’
Sailing on Kentucky Lake From our terrific traveling treasurer, David Craigie
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BOAT CLEANING! Services offered by Appointment Only!
Sea Scout Ship #5790 Call Rick at 306-8597
Captains Roger and Les would like to arrange a TSC Okla-homa River Ferryboat ride this year. The Devon boats are 65’ long 14’ wide and powered by two 200hp John Deere diesel engines. The boats have comfortable seating and are heated and air-conditioned with ample room inside and out-side as well. They can handle 40-45 passengers, and if we can get 35 to sign up we will have the boat to ourselves! The boats leave from Regatta Park or Meridian Landing and the round trips cover about 14 miles with the transit of two locks upstream and two going downstream. The roundtrip takes 2 hours and 45 minutes. Cost is $12 for round trip ($11 for seniors on the weekends) There are sodas and snacks available for sale. We are planning a River Cruise in lieu of the Saturday August 15 Monthly Meeting if we get enough interest. Again, “yes” the boats are air conditioned. Please let your TSC board members know if you would be interested and if so please purchase your tickets and we will take the 1730 (5:30PM) ferry trip and have a TSC member as our Captain. We will return to Regatta Park at 2015 (8:15PM.)
LET’S TAKE A FERRY BOAT RIDE ON THE OKLAHOMA RIVER!
Photos above from Orville/Courtney Fisher and Les Cummings’ OMRF 2009 Foundation Scholars sailing trip on June 25 The scholars are science teachers who have been selected from schools throughout Oklahoma for a summer internship at OMRF.
Thank you Bryan Rainbow for the Wed. night racing photos!
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Preliminary TSC/BoatHouse Schedule (Subject to Change)
2009
DAY DATE TIME EVENT Wed 01-Jul Commodore's Cup Race
Mon-Sat 7/6-7/11 Sailing Smart Camp II—CORBETT BROWN
Wed 15-Jul Commodore's Cup Race
Sat 18-Jul 6:00p TSC meeting
Sat 18-Jul 10am til noon OKC Boy Scout Troop 146 Sailing Trip—Chris Lee and Les Cummings
Sat 25-Jul all day T-BIRD ROUND-UP—-CSSA Junior Regatta #2
Mon-Sun 7-27-8-02 evening Small Boat Sailing Class--M. Klatt
Sat 01-Aug Possible fun race Wed 05-Aug Commodore's Cup Race Sat 15-Aug 6:00p TSC meeting
Mon-Sat 8/17-8/22
Evening/wkend days
NROTC Sailing Class…needs help Contact----Mike Klatt at [email protected]
Wed 19-Aug Commodore's Cup Race
Sat 29-Aug all day Greater Oklahoma Disabled Sports Assoc. day at the lake
Mon 07-Sep Labor Day gathering & McDonald's Cup
Fri 18-Sep 6:00p Basic Keelboat Part I: classroom
Sat-Sun 9/19-9/20 all day Basic Keelboat Part I: on-the-water
Sat 19-Sep 6:00p TSC meeting--Pirate Day
Fri 25-Sep 6:00p Basic Keelboat Part II: classroom
Sat-Sun 9/26-9/27 all day Basic Keelboat Part II: on-the-water
Sat 26-Sep CAST for Kids
Sun 04-Oct all day Layton Memorial Regatta
Sat 17-Oct 6:00p TSC meeting
Sun 01-Nov all day Hiram Douglas Memorial Regatta
Sat 17-Nov 6:00p TSC meeting
Sat 12/12 6:00p TSC Holiday Party/Awards Ceremony
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Phone numbers you should know. ◊ Little River Marina: Bob Davis office 364-8335 (c) 823-5077 ◊ BH Management 447-4974 ◊ Lake Patrol 425-2323 Troop A ◊ Cleveland Co. Sheriff 321-8600 ◊ TBird Park office 364-7634 ◊ TBird Park Ranger 364-7634 Park office hours 0800-1630 wkday, 0800-1500 wkend
Between the ages of 14-21? Join the Sea Scouts!
Do you like to sail, but don’t have a boat or a crew? Join the Sea Scouts! Is the only thing that you do on Saturday is cut the grass or watch TV? Join the Sea Scouts! Do you know any teenagers that would like to have fun learning to sail? Bring them to the Sea Scouts! The Sea Scout Ship has a fine fleet of small sail-boats as well as larger keelboats. Instructors have U.S. Sailing Credentials. ◊ Saturdays from 10am-2pm at the beautiful
Lake Thunderbird BoatHouse at Thunderbird State Park.
◊ For more info contact Skipper Rick Shaw 306-
8597 by phone or email [email protected]
◊ For all young men and women of good charac-ter between the ages of 14 and 21.
◊ The recent membership drive has been very successful, the Sea Scout Ship now has many new members and a crew of over 20 including adults!
◊ Learn to Scuba Dive
◊ Participate in community activities
◊ Have lots of fun on the water
◊ Learn important boating safety rules and regu-lations
Remember when?
Dave Shumake’s famous port/starboard shoes
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Next Meeting: OWPI Saturday, July 18
6 PM Dinner (Bring your favorite Dish) Program: Oklahoma Wind Power Initiative
TSC’S own Mike Klatt and Britton Rife Presents: “Wind Energy in Oklahoma”
See Page 3 for more information
Thunderbird Sailing Club P.O. Box 1652 Norman, OK 73070-1086
2009 Executive Committee Commodore: Ted Streuli 605-8073 (h) [email protected] 589-0981 (m) Vice-Comm: Sam Tiffany 793-1398 (h) [email protected] 822-3280 (m) Rear-Comm: Altus Boren 802-8869 (m) [email protected] Secretary: Elsbeth Dowd 579-0424 (h) [email protected] 609-540-2425 (m) Treasurer: David Craigie 741-2555 (h) [email protected] 613-7774 (m) Fleet Captain Karen Thurston [email protected] 401-8454 (m) Past-Comm: Phil Moershel 364-6304 (h) [email protected] 208-1532 (m) M'sheet Ed: Les Cummings 823-2342 (m) [email protected] 271-7188 (w)
Your 2009 officers! From left, Sam Tiffany, Vice-Commodore, Elsbeth Dowd, Secretary, Karen Thurston, Fleet Captain, Ted Streuli, Commodore, David Craigie, Treasurer, Phil Moershel, Past-Commodore and Altus Boren, Rear Commodore not shown.
